Isaías 5:8

8 Culpa de Judá y su juicio
¡Qué aflicción para ustedes que se apropian de una casa tras otra y de un campo tras otro
hasta que todos queden desalojados y ustedes vivan solos en la tierra!

Isaías 5:8 Meaning and Commentary

Isaiah 5:8

Woe unto them that join house to house
Or "O ye that join"; for, as Aben Ezra observes, it signifies calling, as in ( Isaiah 55:1 ) though Jarchi takes it to be expressive of crying and groaning, on account of future punishments; and he observes, that as there are twenty two blessings pronounced in the book of Psalms, on those that keep the law, so there are twenty two woes pronounced by Isaiah upon the wicked: [that] lay field to field;
the sin of covetousness is exposed and condemned in these words; not that it is unlawful in itself for a man that has a house or field of his own to purchase another that is next unto it; but when he is insatiable, and not content with his houses and lands, but is always coveting more, this is his sin, and especially if he seeks to get them by fraud or force: till [there] be no place;
for others to dwell in and possess; and so the Targum,

``and say, until we possess every place;''

or "unto the end of the place" ^F24, city, or field; till they have got all the houses in the town or city, and all the pieces of ground in the field, in their own possession: that they may be placed alone in the midst of the earth,
or land; that is, of Judea; wholly inhabit it themselves, and have the sole power and jurisdiction over it. It is in the Hebrew text ^F25 "that ye may be placed"; the Targum is,

``and they think they shall dwell alone in the midst of the land.''

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FOOTNOTES:

F24 (Mwqm opa de) "usque ad terminum loci", V. L.
F25 (Mtbvwhw) "constituamini", Vatablus, Forerius, Montanus; "colloeemini", Calvin.

Isaías 5:8 In-Context

6 La convertiré en un lugar silvestre,
donde no se podan las vides ni se remueve la tierra;
un lugar cubierto de cardos y espinos.
Ordenaré a las nubes
que no dejen caer la lluvia sobre ella.

7 La nación de Israel es la viña del Señor
de los Ejércitos Celestiales.
El pueblo de Judá es su agradable huerto.
Él esperaba una cosecha de justicia,
pero, en cambio, encontró opresión.
Esperaba encontrar rectitud,
pero, en cambio, oyó gritos de violencia.

8 Culpa de Judá y su juicio
¡Qué aflicción para ustedes que se apropian de una casa tras otra y de un campo tras otro
hasta que todos queden desalojados y ustedes vivan solos en la tierra!

9 Pero yo he oído al Señor
de los Ejércitos Celestiales
hacer un juramento solemne:
«Muchas casas quedarán abandonadas;
hasta mansiones hermosas estarán vacías.

10 Cuatro hectáreas
de viñedo no producirán ni veintiún litros
de vino
y diez canastas de semilla solo darán una canasta
de grano».